Nychos, El Lasso and joy.maedi.evil at pretty portal
Some nice pics fromt the Nychos, El Lasso, joy.maedi.evil groupshow: Grotesque Theatre Cafe at Pre tty Portal Gallery.
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Eelus at blackall studios
Faile and Bast at Lazarides
Faile and Bast took over London’s Lazarides Gallery on Greek Street on February 12. Faile and Bast fans saw an experienced based on 1980s popular culture.
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Case “Odd or Even” Soloshow in London
Signal Gallery in association with Campbarbossa announces the forthcoming solo show by the renowned German artist Andreas Von Chrzanowski AKA ‘Case’. Following on from successful solo shows in Los Angeles and Düsseldorf/Germany, his first London show will be an exciting event. As well as producing works for the gallery, Case will be painting a number of large street pieces across East London.
Case has been producing spectacular street pieces for a decade, primarily as a founder member of the celebrated German street art group, the Maclaim Crew. Specialising in heightened form of photorealism, several of the artists in th Clan have moved onto working individually and producing fine art works for the Gallery. Case has taken this route too, great acclaim. Developing the pioneering photorealist spray paint style of the group further in his own works, Case has produced a series of stunning detailed paintings that have made his work much sought after by galleries and collectors alike. In his solo show at Signal Gallery, ‘Never Odd Or Even’, Case is taking his inspiration from the fantastical world of Alice Through The Looking Glass.
19th February – 6th March 2010
Opening Reception: 18th February 18:00 – 20.30
Signal Gallery
96a Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3AA
Coxie & Zbiok exhibition in düsseldorf
Nina sagt Galerie
Talstraße 118
40217 Düsseldorf
SKORE183 Exhibition
TODD JAMES: Make My Burden Lighter
Exhibition at Gering & Lopez Gallery
January 15 – February 20, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 6-8pm
In Make My Burden Lighter, James depicts the sinful truths of American life with winsome cartoonish charm. Anthropomorphized weapons cajole in blood baths with pink-skinned blonde bombshells. Sprawling battle scenes extend ad infinitum across multiple sheets of paper. Complex, all-consuming compositions have an overwhelming sense of momentum, as if they were inevitable and unstoppable. These celebratory scenes of massive global chaos are sharply ironic yet playfully whimsical, obscuring our collective moral sense of the sanctity of life and death while pushing the boundaries of the viewer’s ability to judge what is desirable or taboo.
These seemingly innocent stream-of-consciousness doodles may appear as overtly political protest pieces upon closer examination. However, James does not seek to be didactic with his work. He is more interested in visually exploring the rhetorical techniques utilized by the American government and media in their attempts at desensitizing the populace’s perception of current affairs. The American tradition of packaging, commodifying, and manipulating information is at play in these works. They thus deeply connect with the current state of our shared reality, critiquing how we as spectators are led to understand it.
Self-taught, James first made a name for himself as Reas in the 1980s underground graffiti culture of New York. He went on to design the logos for The Source as well as Mobb Deep, Redman, and the Beastie Boys. In 2000, he collaborated with Steve Powers and Barry McGee on the Street Market project that was shown at Deitch Projects, New York; Parco Gallery, Japan; and the Venice Biennale. James will be restaging Street Market at Deitch Projects, New York in the summer of 2010. James was included in the traveling exhibition Beautiful Losers in 2004. Last year, he curated and participated in The New Yorkers at V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has had solo exhibitions in London, UK; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Paris, France. This will be his first solo exhibition in New York.
Urban Expo 2009 at Pretty Portal
The Urban Expo 2009 is a groupshow with six street- and urban artists.
Bres81, Cole Blaq, Hannes Höhlig, Miroh, Nel, Wow the dead will show Sculptures, wallpaintings, pieces in oil-based paint and acrylic paint and markers on canvas and paper.
Urban Expo 2009
Bres81, Cole Blaq, Hannes Höhlig, Miroh, Nel, Wow the dead
Vernissage 04.12.2009 ab 19h
Ausstellung 04.12. – 23.12.2009
Pretty Portal
Brunnenstr. 12
40223 Düsseldorf
http://en.prettyportal.de
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